Scanning color negatives/slide film - Vuescan

[appletree]

Ok thanks. I will look into all of this in the very near future. I am pretty sure when I make it back home in a few days I will be getting Adobe Creative Cloud. I guess that will help to run color photos through PS Plugins (after I learn how to navigate PS a bit).

[polyglot]

Apologies for the late reply, but there is a VueScan/C41 Howto in my FAQ. The photos are missing from it due to the website being hacked and me not backing it up, but the text should still cover what you need.

Instead of using the RGB sliders for the black/white points, you can get the same effect by:
- lock the exposure (same as linked instructions) so that the film-base is not overexposed/clipped in the scan,
- Lock Film Base Exposure,
- turn off Lock Colour,
- select "GENERIC COLOR NEGATIVE",
- adjust the Film Base Color manually to get the black-point hue neutral,
- set Color Balance mode to Manual,
- once the black-point is neutral, adjust the white-point hue with the "Neutral Red/Green/Blue" sliders, starting from 0.5/0.5/0.5,
- adjust the gamma with the Brightness slide.

The latter method is what I generally do these days; I find it easier than the 6-RGB-slider method but I think it is functionally identical.